neat article. I’ve been thinking of these things a bit already. I’m reading a book for my philosophy of religion class, Suspicion and Faith: The Religious Uses of Modern Atheism by Merold Westphal. He examines some ideas of Freud, Marx, and Nietzsche with the aim of showing religious believers (especially Christians, and he’s a Christian himself) how belief can be idolatrous and self-serving. He basically treats these atheists like the Biblical prophets who pointed out the errors of believers, so he treats their critiques as valid rather than dismissing them.